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Most states require you to take reasonable steps to avoid an accident.
by slededit 9y ago
Most states require you to take reasonable steps to avoid an accident.
- dragonwriter 9y agoStopping (which the bus did, turning what would have been a catastrophe into a graze) is a reasonable step to avoid a collision, and it's not clear from anything I've seen that a typical professional human bus driver would have been likely to do much more in the actual circumstance.
- slededit 9y agoThe point is that there is laws requiring you to honk and back up assuming its safe and reasonable to do so if it will avoid an accident. As with all ambiguous laws what is actually "safe and reasonable" is up to a judge should it get that far.